"For thy sake, Edwin, I will endure yet awhile mankind at large! Thy
bloom of honor shall not be cropped by my hand. We will go together to
France; and while I seek a probationary quiet in some of its remote
cities, thou mayest bear the standard of Scotland, in the land of our
ally, against the proud enemies of Bruce."
"Make of me what you will," returned Edwin, "only do not divide me from
yourself!"
Wallace explained to his friend his design of crossing the hills to
Ayrshire, in some port of which he did not doubt finding some vessel
bound for France. Edwin overturned this plan by telling him that in
the moment the abthanes repledged their secret faith to England, they
sent orders into Ayrshire to watch the movements of Wallace's
relations, and to prevent their either hearing of or marching to the
assistance of their wronged kinsman. And besides this, no sooner was
it discovered by the insurgent lords at Roslyn that he had disappeared
from the camp, than, supposing he meant to appeal to Philip, they
dispatched expresses all along the western and eastern coasts, from the
Friths of Forth and Clyde to those of Solway and Berwick-upon-Tweed, to
intercept him.
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